The egg, which belonged to a giant flightless bird that vanished centuries ago, was purchased by a company working with Peter ...

The biotech firm trying to bring extinct species back to life, Colossal Biosciences Inc., will return an egg from the ...

a rare egg belonging to an extinct bird being found in one country; somehow landing in a private collection in an entirely ...

After nearly six decades in a US collection, a rare moa egg is returning to New Zealand.

Scientists have performed the first DNA-based reconstruction of the giant extinct moa bird, using prehistoric feathers recovered from caves and rock shelters in New Zealand. Scientists have performed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A rendering of a giant moa bird, which was hunted to extinction in New Zealand in the 1400s. - Credit: Courtesy of Colossal ...

One does not simply bring back an entire extinct bird species — at least, not without Peter Jackson's help. Colossal Biosciences announced on Tuesday that it had partnered with the Lord of the Rings ...

For the first time, ancient DNA from droppings left by New Zealand’s flightless moa identifies actual species of fungi the doomed birds ate. The snacks, including purple lumps of a trufflelike fungus, ...

Giant moa bird (Dinornis robustus, literally meaning ‘robust strange bird’) may not have actually had robust bones, according to new research. The leg bones of one of the tallest birds that ever ...